Re: GNOME.Asia Summit 2011 - 27 Submitted talks (talks accepted)

[Pockey Lam <pockeylam gnome org>]

Dear all,

Great! So I prepared an email to send to all our speakers to accept 
their talks as below, target to send this email out on Monday, please 
let me know if there is any comment these two days. Thanks!

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Dear Speaker,

We have the honour to inform you that your talk(s) had been accepted and 
arranged into GNOME.Asia Summit 2011.

As next steps, we will schedule your talk(s) according to your preferred 
date(s) and the whole program schedule will be announced at gnome.asia 
in mid March. Please reply this email and send us your photo as well as 
your t-shirt size (from XS to XXXL). Your response before March 7th 
16:00 (UTC) will be appreciated.

We will also provide a hotel booking service to all our speakers with a 
bargain price (30% discount). The daily rate of one room will be around 
$75 / room [1], one room is equipped with two single beds and can 
accommodate 2 persons. If you need this service, please provide your 
dates of hotel check-in and check-out. Besides, if you are willing to 
share a room with another speaker in order to save cost, please let us 
know in advance if you have any preferred room-mate. You may go to FAQ 
page [2] for details of transportation recommendation from the airport 
to your hotel.

Since you are our speaker, you do not have to register yourself at our 
web site in order to join the conference. You just need to go to our 
speaker reception on the day(s) of the conference to redeem a speaker 
badge. Since your talk(s) and participation will be recorded during the 
event. In order to promote Free Software culture, please sign a License 
Agreement on the day(s) of the conference at the speaker reception in 
order to release still pictures and recordings (audio and/or video) of 
your talk(s) and participation at this event. Recordings will be 
released under the "Creative Commons - Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 
Unported" [3] or "Creative Commons — 
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported" license [4].

Please also note that the travel subsidy [5] from the GNOME Foundation 
is available for application now, please follow the travel subsidy 
policy [6] to apply for it if necessary.

If you have any question please do not hesitate to let us know. Looking 
forward to seeing you at the GNOME.Asia Summit 2011! Thank you again for 
your support!

[1] http://2011.gnome.asia/en/p/Accommodation/
[2] http://2011.gnome.asia/FAQ2011/#travel
[3] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
[4] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
[5] http://live.gnome.org/Travel
[6] http://live.gnome.org/Travel/Policy

Best regards,
Pockey Lam
GNOME.Asia Summit 2011 Committee

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On 02/25/2011 08:44 PM, Frederic Muller wrote:
> Ok with me too.
>
> Fred
>
> On 02/24/2011 11:40 AM, Emily Chen wrote:
> > I agree to accept them all.
> >
> > One thing we need to consider. Some speaker might apply for Lightning
> > talk which is 5 mins not one hour. For example, Max's talk.
> >
> > I only see 1 lightning talk below, I think we should encourage more
> > lightning talks among our exist speakers and more local speakers.
> >
> > -Emily
> >
> > 2011/2/24 Pockey Lam <pockeylam gnome org <mailto:pockeylam gnome org>>
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > We have received 26 talks and 1 lightning talk so far. Most of them
> > are GNOME 3 and / or GNOME related and very interesting.
> > And most of the speakers are either local speakers or hackfest
> > hackers :-)
> >
> > Please find below the list of talks / speakers. Detailed speakers'
> > bio / abstracts can be accessed in the shared Google doc - named
> > <<GNOME.Asia Summit 2011 - speaker submission list>> you should
> > already have the right to access the file. If not, please let me know.
> >
> > Since we mentioned we will start to notify speakers on Feb 20 (for
> > 1st round), it's time to review / accept / reject those talks and
> > inform the speakers accordingly.
> > I think we can consider to accept all the following talks in the
> > first round especially those related to GNOME and GNOME 3. Does
> > anybody have any comment / rejection on any of the following talks?
> >
> > Speakers list:
> >
> > *** The GNOME Foundation (exact topic to be defined) - Brian Cameron
> > * GNOME QA Tools - Emily Chen
> > * Getting involved with GNOME in Asia - Pockey Lam
> > * Getting a GNOME life! - Lionel Dricot
> > * GNOME Application User Experience - Md Salahuddin Pasha
> > * Contribute to GNOME - Manish Yadav
> > * Rejuvenating your desktop with GNOME 3 - Vincent Untz
> > * Building GNOME on the Build Service and SUSE Studio - Vincent Untz
> > * Diving into the Shell - Vincent Untz
> > * Next Generation Apps for the Next Generation Desktop - Allan Caeg
> > * Designing the next generation desktop - Allan Day
> > * Evolution + Clutter Experience - Srinivasa Ragavan
> > * GNOME Education (exact topic to be defined) - Fred Muller
> > * 5 days in 0.5 hours - Bharath Acharya
> > * GNOME and Student Contribution - Shaswat Nimesh
> > * GStreamer 101 - Yuvaraj Pandian
> > * Contributions made by a newbie to the free desktop's "Empathy" -
> > Chandni Verma
> > * Bug squadding in GNOME - Akhil Laddha
> > * Automation using LDTP - Akhil Laddha
> > * Contributing to GNOME Documentation - Andre Klapper
> > * Contributing to GNOME translations - Andre Klapper
> > * Extendable 2D physics based animation framework for Gnome3 - Siji
> > Sunny
> > * Towards perfect Indic rendering on GNOME - Arjuna Rao Chavala
> > * Lightning talk: Building a GNOME User Group - Max Huang
> > * GNOME 3 (Exact topic to be defined) - Andreas
> > * OLPC future concept of real time classroom management system in
> > rural India - Saikat Gochhait
> > * Hacking Libreoffice - Muthu Subramanian
> >
> > Please also find the tentative schedule at
> > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2011Summit/TentativeSchedule
> >
> > Pockey
> >
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